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Back to the Office, Back to Reality – Part 3
In Part 1 of our Back to the Office series, we discussed the rights and responsibilities of employees and employers surrounding a return to in-person work. In Part 2, we examined the rules governing mask mandates in the workplace. In...
Back to the Office, Back to Reality – Part 2
In Part 1 of our Back to the Office series, we discussed the rights and responsibilities of employees and employers surrounding a return to in-person work. In Part 2, we will examine the rules governing mask mandates in the workplace....
Back to the Office, Back to Reality – Part 1
Can my employer force me to return to the office? Generally speaking, yes. This will depend on the terms of your employment contract (whether written or oral). For employees that had a pre-existing right to work from home, an attempt...
Workplace Discrimination
According to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, about three-quarters of all human rights claims in Ontario come from the workplace. Considering we spend so much of our time at work, it is important to work in a healthy environment, where...
Employment Agreements – Are yours worth the paper they are written on?
Reducing the terms of an employment agreement to writing at the start of a working relationship, when the atmosphere is generally positive and memories have not faded, is a good idea as it provides the employer and the employee with...
Workplace Suspension and Constructive Dismissal
Constructive dismissal is one of the trickier elements of employment law. It is complicated because unlike the normal situation we think of where an employee is terminated, there is no formal notice of termination. Rather, the employer causes a termination...
